Top 7 Quotes & Sayings by Mata Hari

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Dutch dancer Mata Hari.

Last updated on December 25, 2024.

Margaretha Geertruida MacLeod, better known by the stage name Mata Hari, was a Dutch exotic dancer and courtesan who was convicted of being a spy for Germany during World War I. Professor Pat Shipman, a noted scholar and biographer of Mata Hari, stated she believed Mata Hari was innocent and condemned only because the French Army needed a scapegoat. She was executed by firing squad in France.

Dutch - Dancer | August 7, 1876 - October 15, 1917

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I am a woman who enjoys herself very much; sometimes I lose, sometimes I win.

Mata Hari

The dance is a poem of which each movement is a word.

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I have encountered in this world riff-raff and good people. I lose. I win. I defend myself when I am attacked. I take when someone has taken from me. But I beg you to believe me; I have never done an act of espionage against France. Never. Never.

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I was not content at home. . . I wanted to live like a colorful butterfly in the sun.

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Everything is an illusion.

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My dance is a sacred poem in which each movement is a word and whose every word is underlined by music. The temple in which I dance can be vague or faithfully reproduced, for I am the temple.

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Death is nothing, nor life either, for that matter. To die, to sleep, to pass into nothingness, what does it matter? Everything is an illusion.

Mata Hari